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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

When Terman said no, Sylvania, a tube company which built proximity fuse tubes in WWII, won the contract and set up its Electronic Defense Lab (EDL) in Mountain View California in the middle of an orchard. dumped Détente and embraced a new strategy to counter the Warsaw Pact by not matching them tank for tank or solider to solider.

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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

The University of California managed research and development of the bomb design at Los Alamos while the US Army managed the Los Alamos facilities and the overall administration of the project. Instead of matching the U.S.S.R. After the war the U.S. split up the functions of the OSRD. In response the U.S. could design and produce.